By sunset this past Saturday afternoon, more than 400 people had stopped by the West Cadiz Park — all of them taking in wonderful weather and the sounds and smells of the annual Trigg County Food & Music Festival.
From 10 AM until 5 PM, visitors were treated to the Carroll Peyton Band, the Tennessee River Boys, 43 RPM and Rewind — and all while 19 vendors and a small food court were spread throughout the area.
Bill Stevens, Cadiz-Trigg Tourism executive director, said the small-town festival has truly changed over the last six or seven years — going from along Main Street, to closer along Little River.
A mid-July date, however, wasn’t as effective.
While successful in Stevens’ eye, this past weekend was a jam-packed calendar for anyone in Trigg County looking for something to do. Aside from the festival, Christian County’s Jeffers Bend held its annual Nature Fest, and Cadiz historians hosted their haunting “Dining With The Dearly Departed.”
Furthermore, Kentucky and its 120 counties are in the middle of rebuilding their late summer and early fall calendars following the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, Stevens said the biggest takeaway from this past weekend is to start the planning process a little earlier.
Some of that planning for next year’s Food & Music Festival will begin next week — as officials head into the highly-anticipated Trigg County Country Ham Festival.
The event was free to the public, sans food and other vendor purchases, and the plan is to keep it that way in the coming years.
